Campanula plant named ‘Camgood’

ABSTRACT

A distinct cultivar of Campanula plant named ‘Camgood’, characterized by its rapid growth rate; clumping and spreading growth habit; freely flowering habit; long flowering period; and violet blue campanulate flowers.

BOTANICAL CLASSIFICATION/CULTIVAR DESIGNATION

Campanula poscharskyana cultivar ‘Camgood’.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present Invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar ofCampanula plant, botanically known as Campanula poscharskyana, ismarketed under the trade name Blue Waterfall, and hereinafter referredto by the name ‘Camgood’.

The new Campanula originated from a cross made by the Inventors of theCampanula poscharskyana cultivar ‘Stella’, not patented, as the female,or seed parent, with an unnamed selection of Campanula poscharskyana,not patented, as the male, or pollen, parent. The cultivar ‘Camgood’ wasdiscovered and selected by the Inventors as a flowering plant within theprogeny of the stated cross in a controlled environment in 1996 inBressingham, United Kingdom.

Asexual reproduction of the new cultivar by divisions and basal cuttingstaken at Bressingham, United Kingdom, since June, 1996, has shown thatthe unique features of this new Campanula are stable and reproduced trueto type in successive generations.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Plants of the cultivar ‘Camgood’ have not been observed under allpossible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary somewhat withvariations in environment such as temperature, light intensity,daylength, fertility type or rate, and/or water status without, however,any variance in genotype.

The following traits have been repeatedly observed and are determined tobe the unique characteristics of ‘Camgood’. These characteristics incombination distinguish ‘Camgood’ as a new and distinct cultivar:

1. Rapid growth rate, vigorous growth habit.

2. Clumping and spreading growth habit, dense plants.

3. Freely flowering habit.

4. Long flowering period.

5. Violet blue campanulate flowers.

Plants of the new Campanula differ from plants of the parents in thefollowing characteristics:

1. Plants of the new Campanula have larger leaves than plants of theparents.

2. Plants of the new Campanula are more outwardly spreading in habitthan plants of the parents.

3. Plants of the new Campanula are more freely flowering and have largerflowers than plants of the parents.

4. Flowers of plants of the new Campanula are more blue in color thanflowers of plants of the parents.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE PHOTOGRAPH

The accompanying colored photograph illustrates the overall appearanceof the new cultivar, showing the colors as true as it is reasonablypossible to obtain in colored reproductions of this type. Colors in thephotograph may differ from the color values cited in the detailedbotanical description which accurately describe the colors of the newCampanula.

The photograph comprises a side perspective view of a typical plant of‘Camgood’ grown in the landscape for two growing seasons.

DETAILED BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION

In the following description, color references are made to The RoyalHorticultural Society Colour Chart except where general terms ofordinary dictionary significance are used. Plants were grown inBressingham, United Kingdom under field conditions which closelyapproximate commercial production conditions. During the production ofthe plants, day temperatures ranged from 5 to 28° C. and nighttemperatures ranged from −8 to 15° C. Plants used for the descriptionwere grown for two growing seasons in 5-liter containers.

Parentage:

Female, or seed, parent.—Campanula poscharskyana cultivar ‘Stella’, notpatented.

Male, or pollen, parent.—Unnamed selection of Campanula poscharskyana,not patented.

Propagation:

Type.—By basal cuttings.

Time to initiate roots.—About 10 days at 20° C.

Time to produce a rooted cutting.—About 30 days at 20° C.

Root description.—Fibrous, thin, grayed white in color.

Rooting habit.—Freely branching, dense.

Plant description:

Rate of growth.—Rapid growth rate; during one growing season in UnitedKingdom, plants of the new Campanula will grow at least 100 cm in stemlength. Vigorous.

Form.—Low spreading and clumping perennial; stems arise from the rootcrown.

Usage.—Appropriate for use as a border plant, as a ground cover, and incontainers.

Plant height, soil level to top of plant plane.—About 15 cm.

Plant width.—About 100 cm.

Stem description.—Orientation: Trailing, prostrate. Quantity: More than30 per plant. Length: About 60 cm. Texture: Smooth, glabrous. Color:144B.

Foliage description.—Leaves simple, basal, generally symmetrical andlong persisting. Length: About 4.5 cm. Width: About 4 cm. Shape:Cordate. Apex: Mucronulate. Base: Cordate. Margin: Biserrate. Texture,both surfaces: Slightly pubescent. Venation pattern: Lacinate. Color:Young and fully expanded foliage, upper surface: 143A; venation, 139C.Young and fully expanded foliage, lower surface: 143C; venation, 138A.Petiole: Length: About 15 cm. Diameter: About 2 mm. Texture: Smooth.Color: 144C.

Flower description:

Flower type and habit.—Single star-shaped campanulate flowers arrangedin panicles. Flowering stems, prostrate and trailing; flowers, faceupright. Flowers persistent.

Fragrance.—Not detected.

Natural flowering season.—Continuously flowering from May to October inBressingham, United Kingdom.

Quantity.—Freely flowering with about 80 flowers and flower buds perstem or about 2,600 flowers per plant.

Flower longevity.—About 3 to 5 days on the plant.

Flower diameter.—About 4 cm.

Flower depth (height).—About 1.5 cm.

Flower buds.—Length: About 1.5 cm. Diameter: About 6 mm. Shape: Ovate.Color: 92C.

Petals.—Arrangement/appearance: Five petals in a single whorl, fused atthe base; star-shaped. Length: About 2 cm. Width: About 7 mm. Shape:Lanceolate. Apex: Acute. Margin: Entire. Texture: Smooth. Color: Uppersurface, when opening and fully opened: 92A; color does not fade withsubsequent development. Lower surface, when opening and fully opened:91A.

Sepals.—Quantity/arrangement: Five sepals in a single whorl, fused atthe base; star-shaped. Length: About 1 cm. Diameter: About 4 mm. Shape:Lanceolate. Apex: Acute. Margin: Serrate. Color, both surfaces: 138Bflushed with 183C.

Peduncles.—Length: About 60 cm. Diameter: About 4 mm. Strength: Weak.Angle: Prostrate, trailing. Color: 138A.

Pedicels.—Length: About 2 cm. Diameter: About 1 mm. Strength: Moderatelystrong. Angle: Acute. Color: 138A.

Reproductive organs.—Androecium: Quantity of stamens: Four per flower.Anther shape: Linear. Anther length: About 5 mm. Anther color: 162C.Pollen amount: Scarce. Pollen color: 162C. Gynoecium: Quantity ofpistils: One per flower. Pistil length: About 1.5 cm. Stigma shape:Rounded. Stigma color: 92A. Style length: About 4 mm. Style color: 92A.Ovary color: 155C.

Seed.—Quantity: About 5 to 8 seeds per inflorescence. Length: About 1mm. Diameter: About 0.5 mm. Color: 172B.

Disease/pest resistance: Under commercial production conditions, plantsof the new Campanula have not been noted to be resistant to pathogens orpests common to Campanula.

Weather/temperature tolerance: Plants of the new Campanula have beenobserved to tolerate rain, wind, and temperatures from −8 to 28° C. inBressingham, United Kingdom.

It is claimed:
 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Campanula plant named ‘Camgood’, as illustrated and described. 